Phil Pitchford
Who wouldn't want to go to the DMV?
Apparently more than 150,000 Inland residents in the first six months of the year, according to the latest stats dealing with online vehicle registration. The DMV says a record number of people across the state registered their vehicles online during the first half of the year instead of waiting in line at their local DMV office. It's definitely hard to argue with the reasoning there.
The numbers are 2.36 million vehicles, or roughly 23.8 percent more than a year ago, for the state. Of that, 464,647 vehicles were registered in July alone. The IE figures are 153,346, or 31.6 percent more than the same period last year. That percentage increase in the Inland area was the second-largest in the state, right after the Central Valley with 32.2 percent.
For a listing of all the online ways you can avoid going to the DMV, click here.
Comments
The issue I have had with the DMV is that every thing I have is too complex to be handled online. The last car registration I did went well until I got a note a few weeks later that the transaction had not been completed correctly. There were additonal fees due and a signature line that had not been signed by their clerk. I had to go back in a second time to complete that. As you can probably quess, a few weeks later I got another similar note. Again there were more fees due they had "discovered" and they had found items the previous clerk had finished incorrectly. Fortunately the third time was the charm and I finally got the tags OK.
The only way to survive the long DMV lines is to use the AAA DMV services and the DMV appointment system. This at least cuts down on the massive lines and long wait time after you have been assigned an appointment number.
Richard
Posted by: Richard Lewis | August 15, 2007 9:04 PM